Weekly Journal #32
Industry News
ICM Signs Deal With Writers Guild in Next Major Agency Breakthrough (Hollywood Reporter)
Film
Paramount Committed to Theatrical But Predicts ‘Windows Will Probably Shorten’ (The Wrap)
Black Storytellers Are Using Horror to Battle Hate (Vanity Fair)
Global-First ‘Tenet’ Launch Will Help Guide Fall Releases for Distributors (Variety)
‘Freedom Ride’: Team With Advocate Benjamin Crump For Civil Rights Pic (Deadline)
Make Up review – an eerie erotic awakening in a caravan park (Guardian)
Judas and the Black Messiah Trailer: Daniel Kaluuya Honors Fred Hampton (Hollywood Reporter)
Television
Indian Matchmaking Only Scratches the Surface of a Big Problem (Vanity Fair)
Ellen’s Celebrity Defenders Aren’t Helping Her (Atlantic)
‘A League of Their Own’ Series Gets Greenlight at Amazon (Variety)
'Little Fires Everywhere' Celeste Ng on "Characters of Color", "Power Imbalance" (Hollywood Reporter)
John Oliver Laments Lack of Historical Knowledge about White Supremacy (Hollywood Reporter)
Digital
The New NYT CEO on Building a World Class Digital Media Business (Nieman Lab)
Microsoft Hopes To Acquire TikTok By Mid-September With U.S. Government Approval (Deadline)
Good Reads
‘Caste’ author Isabel Wilkerson on America’s race and class hierarchy (PBS)
Here are the 2020 Hugo Award Winners (Gizmodo)
The Cold War Bunker that became home to a dark web empire (New Yorker)
How to Help Lebanon After Beirut Explosion (New York Times)
He Predicted Trump’s Win in 2016. Now He’s Ready to Call 2020 (New York Times)
How Is There Already This Much Bachelorette Drama? (The Cut)
A stowaway helicopter on NASA’s Mars rover will attempt the first flight on another world (Verge)
The Workforce Is About to Change Dramatically (Atlantic)
Post Malone Files Trademark for a World Beer Pong League (Hype Beast)